Oct 3, 2021 Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton, focus ”Who’s to blame?” Live on Zoom

Dear Folks of Baba,

Here is another quote from Baba that is thought-provoking and is sure to move us to explore our own inner experience of Him. It is a challenge to our everyday weakness of blaming ourselves and others. It is an excerpt from Baba's discourse on “The Questioning Mind” in the book, The Everything and the Nothing:

One of you has said, ‘.I am doing my duty honestly, yet I am not happy.” Who is to be blamed for this? Does God take advantage of my weaknesses? I am happy for your frankness, but you have yet to come to the honesty which will show you that you cannot blame anyone for your condition. Whatever you want to be, that you become. However, if you want to blame anyone, blame me, for everything in the universe has come out of me and so I am the only one that can be blamed. But you have no idea of my love and compassion that sustains your very being. In love is infinite compassion and whatever happens is already tempered by compassion. You cannot understand this until you go beyond the reach of the mind.

If at all I did take advantage of your weakness, it would only be for your advantage. Weakness is but a degree of strength. As Infinite Life I experience myself as everyone and everything; I enjoy and suffer through you to make you aware that you are Infinite.

Some questions that might stir some thinking:

Do you sometimes blame others, like I have, for the conditions you find yourself in?

Do you think everything is being tempered by compassion as Baba says?

Is it something you take on faith, or do you sometimes know this experientially?

Do you have any blocks or resistances to holding Baba accountable for what happens?

Or are you inclined to hold others accountable?

Have you found in retrospect certain experiences were really in the end

compassionate and helpful in your understanding of love?

Have you found that experiences of suffering in your life turned out to contribute

to your feeling more whole over time?

What if there were no unpleasant or painful experiences. Would you grow and awaken?

What if winter with its destruction were eliminated from the seasons, wouldn’t it upset the balance of nature.

Does acceptance of "what is" lead to wholeness?

Do you sometimes look upon your relationship with Baba as a contractual agreement:

I’ll do this for you if you do that for me?

Is being happy the goal?

Do you sometimes think that God can be punitive as some religions depict Him?

In His Love, Jeff

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